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Delinquency

noun

(pl. delinquencies)

Nonpayment of a debt when due.

A tendency to be negligent and uncaring. Synonyms: dereliction, willful neglect. "His derelictions were not really intended as crimes" , "His adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities"

An antisocial misdeed in violation of the law by a minor. Synonym: juvenile delinquency.

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"Delinquency" Quotes from Famous Books

... itself with dragging eagerly away the first compensation. The penalty of the crime of not developing what is given us by nature for a nation's good is the sacrifice of a people's happiness. My friend John reluctantly acknowledged the delinquency. Mark the contrast! Had this all-bountiful India been ours, a more liberal policy would have produced results widely different. No oligarch could have sacrificed it to its own avarice; associations would have ...

— The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth • Timothy Templeton

... the sequestrations and forfeitures of her family." The sequestrations here spoken of were those inflicted by the commissioners for the parliament; and usually they levied a fifth, or even two fifths, according to the apparent delinquency of the parties. But in such cases two great differences arose in the treatment of the royalists; first, that the report was colored according to the interest which a man possessed, or other private means for biassing the commissioners; secondly, that often, when ...

— Biographical Essays • Thomas de Quincey

... for long. The black book on his knee exercised a disturbing influence; his under-mind began to occupy itself with it, and at last the Oldham letter was hastily put down, and, taking out a pocket pen, David, with a smile at his own delinquency, opened the black book, turned over many closely written pages, and settled down to ...

— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... delinquency Is purged here in the circle where we are? Although our feet may pause, pause not ...

— Dante's Purgatory • Dante

... had lost its first fine careless rapture and gained a secret bitterness. He had not married and innumerable stories were related to explain the reason why. They were most of them quite false and none of them quite true. When he ceased to be a young man his delinquency was much discussed, more especially when his father died and he took his place as the head of his family. He was old enough, rich enough, important enough for marriage to be almost imperative. But he remained unmarried. In addition ...

— The Head of the House of Coombe • Frances Hodgson Burnett

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